You’re to be forgiven if you think that the Brown-Tiger-Club is a baseball or football organization.  Would it make any difference if we wrote it in its native language, Brauntigerklub?  If you read German, probably not, because it still reads as the brown-tiger club.

The Brauntigerklub was, in fact, a dog club founded in 1880. A year later, it would change its name to the Klub Kurzhaar, and if you know your sporting breed history, you’ll have recognized the early name for the German Shorthaired Pointer, the literal English translation of the words, “Deutsch Kurzhaar,” being German Shorthair (Pointer).  In this post, we’re not going to sidetrack to the fact that some feel the Deutsch Kurzhaar and the GSP are different breeds, we’ll save that for another time.  Our point is more historical in nature. Though the breed is popular in all colors from solid liver or brown and liver roan, the club was originally called the Brauntigerklubs in reference to the breed’s brown and white roan “tiger” coat, what the AKC breed standard writes as liver and white ticked or liver patched and white ticked.

We always defer to breed experts, but to our knowledge, and with the exception of solid liver or solid black dogs, German Shorthaired Pointers are typically born white with liver or black patches. As they mature, the white coat will fill in, and if they are going to be ticked as adult, puppies usually develop their ticking in the first five weeks after birth. The coat will likely keep changing and the dog may develop more and more ticking as he or she grows older, and it may grow darker.

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